Once again, my phone service is out. This time though we also have no internet. So, now I am across the street from my house at Starbucks. I also have a crummy cold. Verizon says they will restore service by the 31st.
A few months ago I had a craving for my father’s chicken fricassee. If my father were still alive I would have called him up and he would have talked me through the process of making it. My father is no longer alive so I turned to my cookbooks and the recipes I found for chicken fricassee were nothing at all like the stew of chicken necks, gizzards and wings in a watery sweet and sour tomato sauce that I enjoyed as a kid. I assumed that the dish was an invention of my father’s. I then attempted to replicate the dish from my memory of it and failed. A couple of weeks ago I saw an article on the internet, and I can’t remember where, that talked about Jewish fricassee and it sounded an awful lot like the dish I was hankering after. This afternoon I went to the butcher and picked up all of the chicken elements of the dish, a couple of packages each of wings, necks and gizzards. My father never cooked directly from a cook book. He used to re...
Been there done that It sucks. Verizon's record was 2 weeks without a phone. They also kept sending people out and then they'd decide it was fixed and we'd call and say we still don't have a phone and we'd have to call another office and open another work ticket. We couldn't even use our cell phones since at the time we didn't have good reception. It was not fun. I did have internet though. Hope you have better luck with them.
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